How do you choose print versus digital versions of books?
I'm gathering some information about how people make the choice to read digital versus printed versions of books, newspapers, and the like. What I'm trying to do is
My interview on ABC Encounter
Last week I was on an Australian radio show, Encounter, in an episode on "Worship 2.0." via flickr I appear about 40 minutes into the hour-long show, but
“The trick isn’t to unplug from our devices- it’s to unplug from the distractions, information overload, and trash that make us unhappy”
Alexandra Samuel has a very nice piece in The Atlantic that uses the digital Sabbath urge-- her treatment's not as systematic as other recent pieces about the movement,
Who holds the keys to weapons of mass distraction?
From Jesse Fox's Church of Facebook: I often complain about life’s little distractions; things like Facebook and a too-long to-do list and too many people to keep up
A short film about the Sandwalk
I've recently had a mild obsession with the Sandwalk, the path that Charles Darwin laid out on his estate, Down House, and which he walked for nearly forty
Alan Macfarlane on “the social and mental cloisters which exist everywhere in Cambridge”
via flickr From Alan Macfarlane's Reflections on Cambridge: Cloisters are half open, as are the social and mental cloisters which exist everywhere in Cambridge. The great advantage of a
Darwin’s “home and his homelife became an actual part of his intellectual enterprise”
From Janet Browne's great Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, a description of Darwin's house at Down that is also a wonderful meditation on the ways action and
“Considered from intellectual, political, and administrative perspectives,” humanities reform proposals “are wrongheaded and ill-timed”
I'm going to blow through this quickly, so I can get back to real stuff, but I couldn't let this awfulness go unremarked: Gary Olson's latest essay in
“the most important role that publishers perform is the one they are strangely reluctant to celebrate”
Via Pete Simon, I found this essay by Jeff Norton about making raising the visibility of editors as part of a larger effort to educate people (or maybe
“if libraries did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them”
UK-based futurists Andrew Curry, Victoria Ward and Sabine Jaccaud have recently completed a study of the future of the library. Ward's company Spark Now has a description of